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Check out the description of the winning entry below and read about some of our other favorite entries.

Winner: Replace a Missing Handle With a Wine Cork

When the handle on his wife's Crock Pot broke, ELMORROW turned to collection of wine corks to fix the problem. He used the existing hardware (a screw and washer), but replaced the broken handle with a cork. It's easy to grab, even with wet hands, and it stands up to the heat with ease. It's not a complicated hack, but that's what we like about it. Everybody suffers from broken handles on something at some point and most people have a few old wine corks around. Now you have at least a temporary fix that you can put in place right away.

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Honorable Mentions

We got a lot of great entries and we'd be remiss if we didn't share some of our favorites. Here are some of the entries that really impressed us.

Replace a Broken Tape Spindle

Have you lost or broken your tape spindle? Not a problem—at least not for adam.r.hill. He discovered that a wine cork was the same diameter as the standard spindle used for tape dispensers. He cut a kitchen skewer (the kind used for kebabs) to length to use as the axle, pushed it through a slice of wine cork, and was able to fix several of his school's otherwise useless tape dispensers.

Create a Living Refrigerator Magnet

Andres had a clever idea for creating refrigerator magnets. Hollow out the inside of a cork and glue a magnet to the back. Fill the cork with soil and then plant a cactus or succulent inside. Presto—living refrigerator magnets! Since cactus and succulents require little care compared to leafy plants, they are perfect for this.

Hang Your Snowboards (or Whatever)

Shawn likes to hang his snowboards on the wall when he's not using them. He doesn't have another place to store them and he likes looking at them, anyway. He wanted a way to hang them securely, easily, and without scratching them up. That's when he hit upon the idea of using wine corks. He put a long screw through the center of the cork and into the wall (hopefully into a stud or a sheet rock anchor). Now, Shawn can just drop the snowboard into place. The corks hold the snowboards at the top just before the flare, so they are not going anywhere until Shawn's ready for them to.

Make a Holder for Your Rings

Jolie makes felt flower rings and realized that she was going to need some way to store them all. When she stumbled across a bag of wine corks her cousin sent her (we all need cousins like that), everything fell quickly into place. She layered the bottom of a box with Styrofoam and covered that with felt. She then fixed the corks in place with toothpicks. Now, Jolie has a super-attractive, DIY way to store and show off her rings. She posted the full instructions, so if you're interested in making one of these be sure to check it out.

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Get Crafty With Wine Corks

We also got a lot of entries that we felt were more craft than hack, but some of these were so great they deserve a special mention. Be sure to look through them if you've got a bunch of wine corks you don't know what to do with and you're itching to explore your crafty side.